Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE | e : E. ROSEWATER Enrron. [— PUBLISHED TERNE O Patly Bea without § Jradly and Sund Eix months, Three monthe Une ¥ ar. s One MORNING. SUBSORIPTION ny)One Year. ——eeaSa £288388 01 F1C] Omaha, The Bee Bullding. Fouth Omahn, Corner N and 26th Streots Chamber of Gommeroe, 13,14 and 15, Tribune Buliding Washing ton, 613 Fourteonth strest. CORRESPON ANl conimumications relating o news and editorinl matter should be wddressed tc the Editorial Dopurtnient. BUSINESS LETTERS Al business utters and remittances should be addressed {0 The Bee Pubiishing Compuny, Omihi fts, cheeks and postofce ord 10 he m, yable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Proorietrs THE BEE BUILDING. 1 BWORN STATEMENT OF Btate of Nehraskn, 1 County of Douglas. { George BB, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly sw that the setuil cirealation of Tik DA for the week ending July 11, 1501, was Jows: nd CIRCULATION. . July 5, iay, ‘July 6 nesdiy, July 7 Wodnesday, July Thursday, July 0 Friday, Jul Baturdny Average. .. uly 100 GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Eworn 1o betore mo and stsoribed in iy resence this 110h duy of July. 191 & i NP, T, Notary Publie. Etntoof Nebruska i County of Doigts, (49 George B, Tzachier. Deing duly sw FoRc wnd suyy that hi s secrotary of Diishing conpin tho actual ayer daily circulation of Tie DAILY Bi for the month of July, 1890, 20,85 copies: for August, 1800, 20,750 copies: for September. 1500, 20,870 coples; for October, 180, 2),762 coples: for No- venibor, 1807, 12,180 coples: for 180, Dec :m 180, 20471 Coples: for January, 181 28443 coplo; for Ielruary, 18 coples: Tor Mikreh, 1801, 20,005 ¢ oplea: for ADrl, 801, 24025 copfes: for” May, 1801, 6,840 copies: for June, 1801, 20,017 coplos. Gronae B, T75CHUCK, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 6th day ot June, A, D. 1801, N P. FErn, Notary Pubfic. 0110 and Tow for the off-yea are the strat campaign, WYOMING is working up to a mining activity which promises great develop- ments in that industry Wirn $50,500,000 already laid by for a resorve and & magnificent crop now be- ing garnered, Nebraska can look into the future with the utmost complacency. NEBRA! ingenuity is aqual to the task of manufacturing election booths. The eastern man with a patent will be excusod for the season. The eastern man with a patent right has been hero often ehough alrendy. JERRY SIMPSON doclares lhc only way to got rid of the mortgage indebtedness of Kansas is repudiation. In view of the fact that the people of Kansas ave liqui- dating at the rate of $1,000,000 por month, Jerry’s declaration sounds alarm- ingly liko a vilification of his constitu- onc ALL efforts made to date this year to get up an Indian war have failed. Tt is almost safe to say that Indjan wars in this country are ended. The savages are hemmed in by whites and in sight of soldiers everywhere. Nothing but des- peration can induce the remnants of the great tribes to fight. ‘WHAT Prof. Snow of the Kansas uni- versity doos not know about grasshop- pers it will take Uncle Jerry Rusk and the agricultural departmont a dong time to find out He says the Colorado grass- hoppers which have been muking a sen- sation in wostern Kansas are non-migra- tory and practically harmless. This settles it for the present. IN 1889 the school census enumerator found 1,036 children in the Third ward. His successor must have been excep- tionally lazy, for he discovered but 712 Tho ussessor this year, however, got up early and worked late. He reports 3,014, It is hard to say without investigation which of the three assessors is most unre- liable. If there are but 2,746 children in the First ward the returns from the Third are grossly padded. INATOR PRFFERS’ foot is becoming inextricably locked in his mouth. The latest illustration of this fact is a show- ing made by the Topeka Capital of the mortgagos released and filed in 50 counties during Aprily May and June of this year, by which it appears that the total reduction of mortgage indebted- ness for the period named is 673,753, These three months are not those usu- ally selocted by farmers for liquidating indebtedness, and the reports cover less than half the counties in the state. The fact is that Kansas is paying off her mortgages at the average rate of about $1,000,000 per month, in spite of the calamity howls to the contrary. Thore appears to be favorable prom- ise that the French government will abandon its attitude of hostility to American pork. The minister of agri- culture advocates the withdrawal of prohibition, and is supported by two other members of the eabinet, and there are other influences on the same side. Recent advices reported that the matter had been roferred to the council of hygiene, and it is believed that the re- port of that body will bo favorable. The able advocacy of the American case by Minister Roid thus appears to be baar- ing good fruit, but there is doubtless a igorous pressure from domestic raisers which the government finds it hard to overcome. It is an- nounced; also, that the German govern- mont is about ready to announce a with- drawal of the prohibition in Germany, having expressed entive confidence in the inspection system of the United States. This Intelligence disposes of tha idca that in the event of the formation ‘of & commercial alliance betwoen the countries of central Europe American pork would probably be excluded from those countries by a prohibitory tariff, since it is not at all likely that Germany would be a party to an arrangement | which would render that government | amenable to a charge of dupticity and | falso protenses. She will not remove hog | | conceded to belong to Towa. TAE EAST OMAHA QUANDERY, Cut-Off Island has been since 1877 a sort of no man’s land. Prior to that period it was in Towa. It was hardly worth contending for, however, until the East Omaha land company began to improve it and establish its value as a site for railway and manufacturing en- terprises. When it became apparent | thatn prosperous suburb would grow up there it was desirable to determine defi- nitely whether it belongs to Towa or Nebraska, If the middle of the channel | of the Missouri river as lail down in the maps of 1851 is the boundary woon the two states Fast Omaha belongs to Towa unquestionably. If tha present channel s the boundary it belongs to Nebraska. But in the former case lowa would lose the eastern ends of both bridges and tho bottoms west of Spoon lake, 1Inthe event of a decision favor- ing the present channel Iowa will lose all of East Omaha. The change in 1877 was a sudden ons and it is contended that it should not determine the bounda nd no right by accretion comes to either state, but the channel as it had gradually outlined its courso at that time should bo the line of demareation between the two. In this case the east end of the island is in [owa and the principal pirt of the manufac- turing enterprises belong in Towa. The Nebraska attitude in the contro- versy is very much like that of the darkey’s coon trap, It is set to cotch ’em a-comin’ jest de same as a-goin” Whatever conclusion the supreme court renches will add to the territory of this state land which at the date of the admission of Nebraska to the union and for many years subsequently was The points involved are very nice ones, and the de- ision of the supreme court will be an American precedent for the application of a time honored common law principle, whether East Omaha goes to Council Bluffs or the two bridges come to Omaha or the state line is located be- tween the two tracts in East Omaha. bet THE CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY. Omaha people are reminded that the Omaha and Council Bluffs Chautauqua assembly is now in session on the beau- tiful grounds in the outskirts of Council Bluffs. This city is lamentably wanting in pleasure places but her [owa sister is abundantly provided for and cheerfully shares her attractions with Omaha. The beautiful parks of Council Bluffs, the driving park, Lake Manawa and the Chautauqua grounds ave all easily acces- izble from this side of the river and at one time and another offer to our citizens especial attractions. Just now the Chautauqua assembly is the drawing card in Council Bluffs. The grounds are reached by motor and rail ov by motor and private convey- ances or by team direct from, Omaha. It takes only about an hour to go from this side of the river, and if there were no intellectual treat offered the beauty of the grounds and the charms of the drive over and back would amply repay the visitor for his time and nominal ex- pense. Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock ex- Senator Ingalls will deliver one of his great lectures, Mr. Ingalls is one of the most interesting public speakers in Ame Hoe is witty, original and en- tortaining. His ability and reputation are a guaranty that his lecture will be brilliant, startling and enjoyable, wheth- er the hearer agreos with his sentiments ornot. It will be an intellectual treat which citizens of Omaha cannot afford to miss. The association shows a degree of enterprise in securing Mr. Ingalls which deserves recognition, and THE B hopes Omaha will crowd all the transportation facilities on this occasion. ——— THE “NATIONAL ALLIANCE UNION." Reports have been numerous recently of a comprehensive project to unite tho farmers of the country for the purpose of holding back grain and pushing up the price to a specifiod figure. A Now York paper states that u secret conclave of representafive farmers’ alliance men from all parts of tho country was recent- ly held at an out-of-the-way hotel 1n the vicinity of that city at which a schomo of the above character was concocted. This meeting was held several weeks ago, and all possible secrecy was ob- served regarding it, but there were some present at the meeting who were unwilling to endorse the project until it had received the approval of the alliance through its various chan- nels of expression. Accordingly the scheme was formulated in a glowing ‘prospectus, says the paper giving the information, in which the name of the institution was quoted as the National alliance union, and resolutions were adopted cniling upon the state exchanges to submit the scheme to the judgment of their subordinate districtand county oxchanges, It was resolved that when a sufficient number of the subordinate exchanges approve the plan a national convention shall be called to formulate and finally adopt and organize the scheme. It is said that the principal pro- moter of the project is an official of the National Cordage company by which title the twine and bagging trust is incorpo- rated. A meeting of Missouri and Kan- sas farmers for promoting this scheme was hold in Kansas City yestorday, There is no re"son to doubt that a movement of this kind has been started und is of wide oxtent. Whether it can be carvied out as projected is a question which may be worthy the consideration | of practical men, farmers particularly. 1t 1% well Lo remember that one of the chief causes of the rapid development of wheat-growing in British India, which nearly & decade ago began to threaten the market for American wheat in western Europe, was the porsist- ent attempt of speculators to ‘main- tain the price of wheat against the changed conditions tending to lower the price as the opening of cheap new lands, tho use of improved farm machinery, and the reduced cost of transportation. Of course the speculators were beaten. The wheat markets of the world could not be cornered by withholding from Luropean exchanges the export surplus | of tho American crop. The result was | injurious to the wheat producers of the | United States, who have ever since suffered from the greatly increased competition incident to the devel- opment of wheat produetion in a. one form of prohibition to adopt another, India, Australin and elsewhere. The THE OMAHA DAILY BEE presont may appear a better oppor- tunity to renew the attempt to cornor the world's markots, but it must be obvi- | ous to intelligent and practical men that in any circumstances it is an extremely hazardous undertaking. It is true that the European crop fs short, but it will not be wise to ealeulate too much upon the inability of Europe toget along without our wheat. A sharp advaace in price may greatly decreaso the con- sumption of wheat-importing countrie like France and Great Britain, while in wheat-oxporting countries such as India, Russia and Hungary the same effect would be produced upon home consump- tion, with the result of releasing a greater portion of the crops than usual forexport. The proposed scheme invites Amer- ican - farmers to risk the losses which the speculators formerly sus- tained, as well as the entailed evils which fell upon the agricultural intor ests of tha United States. How many of them ave in condition to take such sk? Can any large number of them afford to reject a fair price for their wheat in the face of pressing obliga- tions the postponed payment of which would enable ereditors to largsly in- o their oxactions? The producer right, by every legitimate means, to get the highest price he can for his products, but it is questionable whether the plan the farmers of the country are asked to adopt is legitimate, judiciou or practicable. Further dovelopments in the promotion of this scheme of a national alliance union will be watched with curious and general interest. A MC disgraceful squabble than that over the possession of the remains of the unfortunate victim of the eleva- tor accident in the Paxton hotel seldom oceurs. The part played in it by the coroner is as discreditable tohim profes- sionally as officially. The cold-blooded avarice of the man isshocking to the decency of the community. Coroners, post-mortem doctors and undertakers may look upon a mangled corpse as a source of profit and unfeelngly quarvel over its possession as farmers might contest for the possession of a brute, without a qualm _ of conscience or a sickening revulsion of feeling. People generally, however, naturally regard such conduct as mercenary, ghoulish, disreputable ana inhuman. The citi- zens of Omaha ave fast losing pati with the coroner and the greedy ang of doctors, constables and hangers-on he has attached to himself. A SPECIAL dispatch from Beaver City, I"urnas county, announces that wheat harvest is underway with the largest crop ever known. The implement deal- ers have not been able to fill their or- ders for binders, and consequently a part of the crop will be wasted for want of facilities for harvesting it. Every machine is going from sunrise until dark, and many are running on Sunday, but even these extraordinary efforts are unequal to the emergency. Information of this character comes also from other soetions of the state, and everything points to the largest crop ever harvested in Nebraska. Better still is tho pros- pect that the crops will sell at the highest prices known for many years. This is indeed the farmers’ jubilea. WrrH three lawyers in the office of the city attorney and one on the judi- ciory committee of the council the city has a right to expect that technical accidents shall not occur at the expense of the city. The fact that Dr. Clarke Gapen can be entitled to two salaries for the same service for three months is a sarcastic commentary upon the dili- gence of the legal department of city affairs, This represents a loss to the tax payers of $600 or more than enough to pay the salary of one additional stenographer in the city attorney’s office. THE board of trade paid 3400 for an advertisment in a comic paper. Four hundred dollars will buy and pay post- age upon one thousand copies of last SUNDAY'S BEE with the exhibit of the financial condition of Nebraska. It re- mains to be added, however, that the board of trade has not ordered the one thousand extra copies of THE SUNDAY BEE. SOMEBODY is respousible for allowing Dr. Clarke Gapen to hold two city offi- ces and draw two salaries. The genial doctor is doubtlesscompetent to perform the duties of two ordinary physicians, but that is no reason why he should be paid $1,400 per year when the plain in- teut of the charter is to allow him but 2,000, No wonder the controversy between the city and county physician has been in aboyance for several weeks. The city physician had no occasion to protest in view of the fact that he has been receiv- ing a littlo more than double the salary contemplated by tho charter, THE light testing apparatus which it 18 proposed to purchase for the city will cost $1,41 It will be cheap at this price provided it has no slot into which the lighting companies can drop boodle and make the wachine play music of their own se DR. CLARKE GAPEN, city physician nnd commissioner of health, should use one of his salaries in purchasing an am- bulance for the convenience of the health and police departments. This will be patriotic and generour. A BOND for his brother-in-law is very often us satisfactory an obligation as one for a councilman himself. It looks just peculiar, however, whon officers of franchised corporations and city con- wractors are the bondsmen. DeLmous demagogues who live by traducing this state and its people find very cold comfort in THE SUNDAY BEE'S exhibit of the financial condition of Ne- braska. Sme————— A GAIN of nearly 8,000 in the last year in the school enumeration is con- Clusive proof that Omaha is growing in population steadll T HE board of public lands and build- ings should not allow the Hustings in- vestigation to drag itself through the suuwe The hot weather will not help THURSDAY the smell of #hething a particle. The sooner the luq‘)ufit is over and the corpsos areintorred (R botter it will be for all concerned. _ AMERIC .\\4 "Tt‘, the greatest excur- sion llu\t'h\rfl,nl the world. Fourteen thousand delegndes attended the great Christian Endeavor moeting at Minne- apolis last weele; and over fifteen thou- sund were at the samo time hurrying as fast as traind 'éould carry them to the Natfonal teachers’ convention at To- ronto. Thesé ade the special excursion- ists. The regular tourists from the cities to the ocean, lake and mountain resorts number million: GooD for the Nebraska delogation to the National Teachers’ association. It steamed into Toronto on the *‘Empress of India’ singing *‘America.” The To- ronto people were delighted because the air is “God Save the Queen,” and hence enthusiasm prevailed both on shore and on the wave. It was reciprocal dem- onstration. A CONTRACT to supply lamps of six- teen-candle power with no penalty for violating this provision is a good one for the mayor to luy over for repairs. Let us have a contract with the apparent leaks at least safely calked up. ALTHOUGH it is more than three months since the amended charter took effect rulos for the government of the board of health ave not yet adopted. In some particulars the Omaha city council is a deliberative body. MEMBERS of the board of education should not forget that it will require rare executive ability and consummate tact to manage the public school systemn of this community with 27,273 children of school age. Ir is to be hoped the mayor will con- tinue to veto ordinances increasing the number of municipal tax eaters. We now have too many names and salaries on the city pay roil. JAMES E. CAMPBELL was by no means the unanimous choice of the democratic convention, although a single ballot re- nominated him for governor of Onio. A SALARY of 81,600 ought to secure an bonest sanitary commissioner. Wheezy at the Joints. Washington Post. As a political merry-go-round the Isaac P. Gray presidential boom is a great success. gt A Diflicult Job, Glote-Democrat. 1t will be very difficuit for the democrats to filch Mr. Wanamaker's good name from him on the idle' tlk of aman whois now serving & fifteen years' term as an om- bezzler. — Prepare for Thanksgiving. New York World. An American grain crop of 8,200,000,000 bushels, the heaviest ever known, is reported as in ight. To do justico to the occasion let this yoar's Thanksgiving turkey bogin to fatten himself up forthwith. : Call the Roll. ; FPhiladelphia Press: The fact that tho democratic editors in Kansas favor the renomination of Cleveland, is important only because it shows that there aro still some democrats in Kansas despite the ascendency of the farmers’ alliance, it i ) Chance to Redeem The Nortolls News. Governor Thayer announces that he doesn’t believe the peopie want an extra session of the legistature and ho therofore will not call oue. This will bs making it all the moro necessary for the members of the state board of transportation to make an offort to earn their salaries. selves. —————— Harvest Excursions. Denver Sun. The Nebraska papers are irsisting that the harvest excursions 1n that state be run this yearas usual. If the crop reports are not grossly exaggerated, there is certainly every reason why tha excursions should be con- tinued. The farmers can enjoy excursions this year with no twinges of conscience be- cause of the cost. e Failed to Work. Chicago Times. The conviction of ex-Treasurer Noland of Missouri on the churge of embezzling 32,000 of state funds and his sentence to two years in the penitentiary can not fail to cause gen- eral astonishment. It bas generally been supposed that the fact that be lost the money at poker would be regarded by a Missouri jury as an extenuating circumstance. Omaha the Proper Place. Kearney Hub, . Omaha has reccived the endorsement of tho stato ropublican central committee as the proper place for holding the next national republicau convention. Thero is no question about Omaha being the proper place. It is centrally located, easy of access and the ex- pediency of the proposition caunot be douvted, Tur Bee is pulling strong for the cenvention, ——— ‘the Long and the £ hort of It. Springfield Itepublican. The receiver of the Keystone bank at Phil- adelphia finds that the assets equal $1,726,511, of which §096,992 ara of doubtful value and $153,012 worthless, On tho other hand, the liabilities are $1,735,577, not including the due bills for Bardsley's atleged loan of §025,- 000 of public money—or §2,660,000 with thoso thrown in. Abowt A‘million aud a half is the s1ze of tho bank's st This must pretty nearly beat {he record. The Brive and the Fair, Bostiin Globe. All honor to the'bfave western woman who took down her Hisband’'s Winchester riflo and put holes thrapgh the bodies of three of a gaug of whilg [gaps Who were about to whip him in their usual savage fashion. Tho . white cap outrages ihaye gouo far enough, and it is«ime the éold lead treatment adopted by this plucky womgh was more generally applied. The averggo white cap 1s juss about s barburous a byjngs Jack the Ripper, Maktfy Noise. San Franciseo Call, The assumption is unwarranted that tho west 15 for fres eolnage. In tho country wost of the Missours valley the silver wining interest is large and powerfil. It controls men uad it controls newspapors. It makes a tremendous noise, so loud that it appears to be the voice of the whole western people. Butit is not. A vust malority of the peoplo of the west are not owuers of silver minc: and bave not tho smallest notion of parting with their property or their labor for a cur- rency which is depreciated. o~ The Essence of Justice, Philadel hia Record, Tho supreme court of Nebraska has de- clded that when a husband is physically un able to support his fgmily, und his wife carns the money to pay the bills, sho is the legal head of the family, Few authorities, legal JULY 16 or soeinl, will presume to question that such a decision is in accord with the equities, and, therefore, promotive to the public good. Novertheless, in its tendency 1t Is calculated to create an apprehension in the more timo- rous of manly bosoins that the dootrine of legal hoadship if glven an Inch may gradually proceed to holp ftsolf to an ell; in other words, that it might result in a division authority which would af- ford lamentable disproof of the adage that two heads are better than one. This apprebension is premature, to say the lenst. There Is not the slightest warrant for assuming that woman drest fn a littlo briof authority would so abuseit by fantastiotricks as to wring tears from the angels, as Shake- spearo tells us man is wont to do. So far as actual headship of the family may go, money or the capacity for earning money is by no means the only test of primacy. Talent of various sorts, and especially executive talont, is very often fonnd to serve the samo func- tion as authority. This, however, is merely de facto authority, which is a very differont thing from authority before the luw. Thus far the rights of tho husband are entirely so- cure oven iu Nebraska. The decision is not only unassailable from the standpoint of equity, but it 1s one more proof o the oft-noted fact that the western courts are taking advanced ground on ques- tions touching the legal status of woman which the more conservative judicial func. tionavies of the east may as well preparo to keep pace with. Meanwhile, and until the coming of that golden era, wo may oxpect to see a hegira of eastern wives, with their hus- bands and famiies, to the promising Ne- braska plains; for the women of the east know a good thing when they see it. - PASSING JESTS, Argonaot: He: What kinds of men do you think makes the best husbands? She: Bachelors und widowers. N. Y, Horald: y~1 foll from my whool this morning, Miss Jones—Took u wegu- Iar heador, Miss J.—Is that ‘so? I always heard that you never tumbled. Washington Post: Husband: Doar, T wish you would bring me my hat out of the other room. Wife—sharply— Do it yourself. I'd look pretty waiting on you, woaldn't 17 Hushand: Yes dos 'hat's why I asked you to. The chap who trics to win o miss y appealing to her rens Tn much less like to galn his bliss Than ho who ventures on i kiss, Combined with gentle squeezin’s Judge: Tronical Guest— 's only a nice, largo fly in this stew, waiter. Waitér—Yoas: | done notice dey wns only ne. It's kinder oarly for dem yet. boss, an' yer cau't hardly ‘spec’ mo' dan one till doy’s in soason. 3 merville Journal: Convl s0 me, ma'am, you dropped your handkerchief. Lady Visitor—Thank you: you are very good. viet (eagerly)—Suy, ma'an to pursuade ” the go somehow, could yer? you couldn’t nor of that, shington Star: A young woman up town whose first name is Lily asked lher George- fown bonn to write hor an 0bltuary poem, and he did thi e have planted here this Lily, The loveliust, by gum, That ever grew upon the earth To bloom in kingdom come.” The Disappotnted Girl—It was awful luck. They callod at the san e time. Both wanted 0 propose. Neither would go. and— The Confidante—\Which one got left? Tho Disappointed—i did. Munsey's Woekly: Alglo—What an unro- mantio g1rl Miss Choteau is!_Sho shocked me torrible last night. Charlie—indecd! How was that? Algio--At parting 1 asked her for a little kiss, and she said thit she came from St. Louly and her mouth wusn't bullt for little kisses. VICTORY IN TEARS, Somerville Journal, ronts of abuso. TQ wattoh his cal, tinpressive tace You would not know he heard. She tatked, and talked, and talked, and talked, He ket his mouth closed t'ght: Her language would have withered him, If words could blast and blight. And 50 the sharp warfare was wuged In a one-sided Wiy, Sho getting mor2 and more enruged, With more and mcre to 51y Till finally, quite breaking down, Sho just begun to ci And so she won the victory— Men know the reason why. Detroit Freo Press: She had just moved into her own house on Forest avenue and a triend was calling on her. “This is u very pleasant locality," visitor. *Oh, ves; Tlike it v we bought the house. “\Whit kind of noixhbors huve you?" sieally, Tdon't know.” “Haven'v you got acquainted with uny of them?” +Oh. no,” with some prid, rented houses, you know.” sald the ry much. That's why i “they all live in Epoch: “Is there no hope, doctor,” asked thig dying congrossmun “Then it T must dle. tell the boys to place tho limit at % and drink nothing but cham pagne on the fun . Rochester Post-Fxpress: In the year 1930, Gran )50 you've seen a good many exciting Grand and taki [ut . hoy. 1 used to write poetry it to the editors myself. Brooklyn Life: Strawber-I heard that you made i hour'sspeech ut the debuting elub. Was it weil recelv Singerly—They choerod me when Isat down. Ponge—Can you let or 507 G Enerans - T've only got 8, but you cun ve that if it wiil do. Ponge—All right; I'll tako that and then you willowe me 81. Lot TWENIY-ONE. Laura Rosamowi White in Cleveland Leader, Youth's carlier vears may bo as fair As is tho sunlight of the air, Ero day is done; Till boyhood drops life’s playful game, That never can be quite the same At uwenty-one. At twenty-ono the man is born, Who shouli the world of mon adorn, With lifo begun In carnestness, for he has power To help make rulers of the hour, At twenty-one. The old and gray must pass away, Death’s dictum they will soon obey, Their raco is run; But the brave youths of our great land, Join wisdom's concourse, heart and hand, At twenty-one, At twenty-one the earth is sweet, ‘And flowers bloom ever at tho fo Hope denies none; But paiuts a future of delight, That almost dawns upon the sight, Al twenty-one. . . . . . . May every wish—so far as best— Be gratified, ang life bo blest, And grand work done, For God and man, till life shull' end, Theso are my wishes for my friond, Just twenty-one. - More Men to Choose Sax Fraxcisco, Cal,, July 1 board of trado has adopted a resolution claiming for Californa the chiefship of the department of horticulture of the world's fuir asn due recognition of her position us tho chief horticultural state of the union, and ignoring all past contention, presents Lo Director General Davis the names of J. Do barth Sherb of Los Angeles, f'rank Kimball of San Di Elwood Copper of Santa Barbara, aud Guorgo A, Floming of San Jose, rom. pal L Depew Sails for Euro NEW YORK, July 15.--Chauncey M. Depew salled today at 12:30 o'clock on the Majestic for Kurope, whero he will romain until Sept enber 10, when he expocts to return on the Poutonic. Mr. .Depow had comploted bis plaus to leave this country on July 1, but his teip was doferred owing to the illness of his son aud his mothor-in-law, Mrs. ilegeman, who bave tew sufliciently recovered o ac- company Mr. and Mrs. Dépow. SUPERIOR MAN PARDONED, Obarles Stevenson, Convioted of Murdsring Miss Bisley, Released. PATHETIC APPEAL OF AN OLD MAN. Arranging for the Lincoln Stato Falr—Hettor Street Car Fa- | cllitios—Damage Oase of the Call. Lixcory, Nob,, July 15.—|Special to Ti# Brr,] —Ono of the mostaffectiug scones prob- avly ever witnessed in the governor's office occurred this afternoon. It was an aged father who bad como to ask oxecutive clom- ency for his son who, though a splendid | manly young fellow, had been foind guilty of manslaughter under @ pecullar com- bination of cireumstances. The father was R. B. Stevenson, a highly respocted citizon of Superior, and the young man his son Coarley. With the old gentleman was'a group of the most prominent citizens of that city, who soconded the old man’s appeat and exhibitod petitions signod by 1,150 residents of the county. The governor listened to the case which was presented in full, as follows : Charles C. Stevenson is a young man about twenty-two yoars of ago and for about three years has beon engaged in the jewolry busi- ness at Suporior, He is an ambitious, ener- getic young business man and very popular. In the same storeroom whero tio carried on | Lis business, Raymond V. Moore conducted a drug store. Whenever Mr. Mooro was ! it ho was accustomed to ask young enson to look after the customers that came in. Of a very obliging nature, the young jeweler always compliod On the evoning of Jauuary 14, while Moore was absent at supper, rl Eisloy and | Thomas Fitzgerald, respectively brother and second cousin to Miss Carrio Bisley, called | at the druyg store and asked for some alum, at | least so Stevenson undorstood. He put up what ho supvosed was the article desired. Bisley any #itzgerald claim that they asked | for calomel, That night somo of tha medi given to Miss Fisley. She was sick and did in 8 short time, 1topsy revealod tho fact that tho young lady’s death | had been caused by a dose of corrosive sub- limate, Young Stevenson chargo of murder in the se sequently he was indicted for manslaughter, tried and convicted, but sentonce was sus- pended pending a néw trial and an applica- tion to bemade for pardon. The jury found a verdict of guilty but recommonded him to the mercy of tho court. These facts were ably presonted to the governor this afternoon by General Dilworth and tho faultless charactor of the youug man dwelt on and also his innocence of any- thing intentionally cruninal. The general was seconded by Captain Ed Muriin, Hon. C. B. Adams, Sith Caldwell, 5. C. Carnes and Lieutenant Governor Tom Majors. In addition wers presented petitions from Judge W. H. Morris, bofore whom he was tried, the county attorney, ten of the jury and the ontire corps of county oficials, " tho bar, the clergymen and the physicians of tho county in aadition totho list of 1,150 other petitioners. ‘The governor granted the pardon. OATLEY ARRESTED. Simon E. Oatloy was arrested this morning while walking down O stroet by Detective Pound on a_warraot from Judge Brown's court charging him with breaking into a house in daylight. Oatley’s wifo, a_hard- working woman, and an_employe of L. K. Holmes, secured a divorco from her husband a few months ago on the ground of habitual drunkenness and has since been living in ono of Mr. Holmes' houses west of tho Yesterday morning Oatley went out thel and although warned by Mrs. Holmes not o onter, he went i and took out a lot of house- hold goods, which he thinks he is entitled to. Oatley claims that he didu’t break iu, that tho door was uniocked and ho simply walked in. He will have a hearing tomorrow after- noou, having given security for his appear- ance! no sold was was arrested on_tho ond degree. Sub- STATE FAIR ARRANGEMENTS, The state board of agriculturo held a sos- sion at the kincoln hotel last ovening. The matter of arranging with the Lincoln streot railway company for the running of electric motors nto_the fair grounds was ( ssed, It was decided to allow this to be dono, Thore was also some discussion regarding tho cnlarging of the amplitheater, Today the board visited the fiir zrounds and mado ar- rangoments for the ruming of electric cars to the grounds. Tho street railway company agrees to run _ocars every five minutes while the fair is in progress. LINCOLN CALL CASE. The Western Union telegraph company has filed its answer to the suit for damages brought by the Call publishing compaay for alloged unjust discrimination in the ol of tolegraph tolls for news matter. deny a good many assertions of the plaintiff, among them that the company over exer: cised tho right of eminent domain in No- Dbraska, aud that they have unjustly dis- criminated against the plaintift by chivging thom §75 a month and the Journal §125, They assert they do not know how much or whother defondant pays the Associated press for the sorvice, and “denics that plaintiff couldn’t procura news oxcept over defendant’s wire ‘'hey deny that they unjustly discrim- inated in favor of the morning paper, and ns- sert their readiness to givo tha plaintiff the same service for the same prico. The after- noon sheet takes only 1,500 words, while tho Journal gots about four times as much, The servico for the plaintifl is all day work, and for the other concern all night, work, which Iatter costs a third less toreceive. Tho telograph company claims that the price charged the plaintiff is the same s charged in other cities, while 1t takes ono more handling at Lincoln. They assert that tho Associated pross of Chicago collects for the work, that it is interstate commerce bus iness, and the state of Nebrdska has no right or power to fix rates, and this court no juris diction in the case. Thoy are not in the by - iness of peddling nows, and ask that the case bo dismissed. -~ DANA UPHOLDS WCLURE. Tho Veteran Editor Says Li doubtedly Preferreil Johnson. ok, July 15.—Charles A. Dana, in an editorial in the Sun, upholds Colonel M- Clure, ellitor of the Philadelphif Times, in his controversy with Nicolay, formerly p vate secrotary of President Lincoln, over the watter of his preiorence of nomines for vico president in 1864, Dana says “We bave no doubt Nicolay quotes Lincoln correctly us rofusiug to take any part against Hamlin’s renomination, yet. thero nas nover been a doubt in the ming of every practical wan who was really behind the curtain in that tremendons poriod, that Lincoln looked carefully about for a man to suceeod Hamlin, Gonerul Butie General Dix, Androw Johnsou and, wo dare sy, two or three others, were very carncstly conbidered by the president. Johnson alone united the chief requisites. He was accord ingly fixed upou and the fact that ho was tinally nominated is proof ample and positive coln Un- | convention at Juniata Ju) 1+ money from a farmer ne EWS OF THE NORTHWEST. () Nebraskn, Mry. Sarah Fogg of Schuyler is doad ab the age of eighty-six. Sovoral windmills and corn-oribs wore lov- cled by a heavy wind at Ong. Adams county prolribs will hold & county Lightning struck Jay Mordil's barn near Columbus, killed three hogs and burned up tho sheds, J. T. Lindsay, who was onoe the law part- nor of Robort ingorsoll, is now engaged in farming Knox county land The contract hts been lot to an Ohfo com- pauy for building an fron bridge across the Elkhorn four miles west of Stanton, After being lost in the saud-hills about, Anselmo all night, tho two-year-old child of Mr, White was discovered by of searchers and was restored to stricken mother, Miss Grace Overton, an Otoo county young laay, dulged in_ sloep-walking the other night and foll out of her bedroom window to tre ground, distance of about twonty feot. Strange to® 'say sho was not injured in the loast, although badly frightened, During the recent heavy rain storm light- ning struck the flag-polo on the Russell hotel at Tilden, It ran down through the roof and shattored the front windows, melting the wire screens. Messrs. M. V. Crue and Jay Russell, who wero standing in tho front door, received n sovero shock The beot weeding and _th rapidly drawing to a clos gret of the boys who have b vank accounts while it last 1k News. Many of tho fi d by" until harvest, and next week will seo all the fields 1n shape to bo loft until the cron is ready to gather. -Tho wet weathor has mado the work of cultivation extremoly expensive and arduous, while the erop was n new one to those raising it, so that if a finan- s is achieved in the faco of all tho s that have arisen, sugar beot raising safely be looked upon as ono of the cor- _ profitable sources of revenuo to the wers of this section Towa, A saloon and fixtures were sold at publie auction in Dubuque the other day. I'romont county favmers estimato that this fall wheat will averago thirty-five bushels to the acre. I3ph Roid oxhinited in Hamburg the othor day n cornstalk eloven feet long, with tureo enrs on it. Rischock, oloven years old, was in the Cedar river near Pipton. Sho was ffshing and foll in, Alittle daughtor of Lowell was killod by road cart whilo the awa Mrs. Kuntz, a blind womn, foll down a stairway of hor rosidence in Dubuque and sustained a broken arm and had all hor tooth kuocked out. In Muscatine saloons bouses.” Thirty-eignt paid costs for the pri ning soason is much to the ro 1 nccumulating Goorge Juckson of being thrown from n horso was running are ‘“disorderly fine of $25 and 0 of dispensing liquors ¢ during June. The old settlers of Decatur hold their unnual reunion in August 6. Gene Wi HS will be the orator of the day. Mrs. Antoinotta Brigham, wifo of Johnson Brigham, editor of the Codar Rapids Repub- lican, has been granted a divorce for desor tion. Mrs, gham is teaching school in Chicago. Chestor Wilson, a fourteon-yon: in jail at UI!\Ilu\vn for county will Garden Grove Gibson of Obio Bri old boy, s ummuu asum of v that cf Ho also stolo a horso at_Herndon, (A county, and sold it for $2.50. Constablo Henry Kelley of Dubuquo has two fly traps to caich flies for his chickens, and since the bipeds have been feoding on 1y dict they refuse to eat corn, but cackle all the timé for flics. The constablo avers that his hens lay twico as many exgs now ns thoy dm before he bogan feeding them flics, A soap fakir opened up busiuess in Dysart the other day, selling money wrappelup in packages of Soap. A young farmer iyested £ in the stuff, and detecting the fakir chang ing tho packiges tho farmer kicked his ap- paratus over and pounded the faicir until ho returned the money. The swindler and his associates then walked out of town. An Eagle Point young man took a girl about seventeen yoars of age to a Dubuquo park where beer was freely dispensed. Both drank until the girl bocame drunk, and whilo she was lying in a drunken stupor’the fellow took her’clothes and hid them, and went home leaving herin the park, A cold wind whistled through the cracks of the park feuce, and aching with cold the girl awole to a realization of her position, but she didu't find her wearing apparel until daylight had dawned. During a rainstorm, Ikko Ramsoy, a man of about thirty, living three and on ImU miles soutiwest of Cushing, was struck by light- ning. Ho was standitg in the barn door at tho timo with his hands in his pockets. "Thero was no one elso at home. The light- ning struck his right olbow, passing down his hand and to his foot, coming out of hiz” boot. He lay unconscious for some time, Hit av last attempted to rise. For some time ho wis unable to do so, but finally succceded in roaching a near neignbor's, and a doctor speedily summoned. 14y thought that his injuries are not severe, e FATAL BATTLE WITH SAILORS. Charleston Tars and Oflicers Have a Serious Fight. SAN Diro, Cal., July 15, —The riot hers last evening growing out of the attempt of deputy. United States marshals to arrest cloven sailors from the warship Charleston who had overstayed their shore leaye, was & serious affair. The sailors were carousing in a suloon wlien Deputy Marshals Bradlovo, Webb, Wilson and Grother onterod and ar rested one of their number. The oth sailors immediately closed inund attomptod to pro- vent tho officors from romoving tho man. Clubs were drawn by the deputies and b{ fight ensued. Constuole Mitehell camo to the assistance of the deputies, but tho street becamo crowded with longshoremen, sailors and oitizons aud the fighting becamo general. It looked as if the officers would bo killed, but a patrol wagon arrived with rein- forcements and the avrested sailor was taken to jail. When the patrol Ieft the crowd again attacked the ofiicers with pickbandles, was pipo and other weapons. ¥ drow a pistol and the erowd was clamoring for his life, Another constable drove up in a buggy und took Tao ofticors finally got away and the wounded were picked up. Robere Brown, a sailor on the Charleston, died ina_few minutes from the effects of ' blow on the head with a club said to hive been inflicted by Deputy Wilsou Another Charleston sailor, Paddy Burns, 15 dying with a fractured skuil, e, love and Gretner wero badly the head anda numbor of viher porsons i jured, Th e 18 At excitement and threats of lynching all tho deputies concerned in tho troubie, Tho sympathy of the commu- nity seems to bo with the sailors, as it was suid tho ofticers wora Lo officious and for the sako of securing the reward offered for dess ers they undertook to arrest sailors whoso shore léave had not oxpired. Wilson, Brad- love and Grethor have disappeared und cau- not be found. Canada’s Crop Prospects. Toroxto, Ont., July 15.—Reports from all parts of Ontario indicate that all the grain and root crops will be about an average and that bay will be away below it el Spurgeon Has a Relapse, that fie was not only preforred by Lincoln, but that tho proference was frankly oxpress: ed to s very fow from whom Lincoln con cealed nothing that bore upon the subject,” Loxnoy, July 15.—Rev, Charles H. Spur- geon has suffered a relapse and is again iu & very critical condition, Highest of all in Leavening Power..—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Baking eoes POWdEr - p N